Edgar Johnson is there a street kids of Ur-Hadad occupation table somewhere?


Edgar Johnson is there a street kids of Ur-Hadad occupation table somewhere?

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  1. Edgar JohnsonApril 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM

    Nope. We just made everyone some flavor of urchin. You could also go with other names for urchins, I suppose.

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  2. Casey G.April 30, 2014 at 1:32 PM

    I suppose a lot of the regular occupations could describe what their role in the gang was. 

    Making the neighborhoods is something I'm going to do for fun even if I don't ever get to play this.

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  3. Barry BlattApril 30, 2014 at 1:42 PM

    What like sea urchin?

    But seriously get yer 'ead round some cockney, or better still the Thieves' cant of the 19th century - https://archive.org/details/vulgartongueagl00anglgoog

    or even the 17th - https://archive.org/details/newdictionaryoft00begeuoft - this one is well worth a flick through..

    Abram-men (or urchin) - tricked out in ribbons to pretend madness and get away with hit and run thefts
    Assidavit men - mercenaries, hired thugs
    Ars-worm - a little fellow (halfling?)
    Bantling- a child
    Bawdy-basket - street pronography seller
     
    and so on.

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  4. Wayne SnyderApril 30, 2014 at 2:26 PM

    So basically you want occupations for the urchins to give them special starting equipment and/or abilities?

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  5. Casey G.April 30, 2014 at 2:32 PM

    Yeah, that's pretty much what I was looking for, Wayne Snyder.

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  6. Wayne SnyderApril 30, 2014 at 2:34 PM

    I bet Edgar Johnson and myself can have something together before to long. What say you, Edgar?

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  7. Edgar JohnsonApril 30, 2014 at 2:49 PM

    Deep into end-of-semester grading, then on to some other projects and summer teaching. If I had more time, I'd be on board, but too much to do. I'm going to have to leave it to you, probably.

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  8. Edgar JohnsonApril 30, 2014 at 2:51 PM

    Also, you could just make it up, based on other occupations (beggar, etc.). I don't think that they'd all fit. No squires, probably, but maybe wizard's apprentice could work. That urchin would be dealing with that old hedge witch who lives in Gongfarmer Alley. That sort of thing.

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  9. Casey G.April 30, 2014 at 2:53 PM

    Yeah, it wouldn't be hard to make a smaller list from the main occupation list.

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  10. Wayne SnyderApril 30, 2014 at 2:54 PM

    True. I already have half a thing written. I'm not saying it'll be good, but it'll be something.

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